What is it about young women and the word ‘like’, like?
Yesterday I went to my favourite coffee shop for a brew of their excellent coffee and a croissant (pretentious, moi?).
Any road, it was pretty busy, and I ended up sitting next to two rather attractive young women. Nothing wrong with that in itself, of course, except that I then became a reluctant earwigger to their conversation, concerning a mutual friend. Apparently said friend had been out a couple of times for a drink with some bloke, so naturally to the female way of thinking, the two were now in what is deemed a ‘relationship’. The conversation went something along these lines, accompanied of course by an assortment of hand gestures and contorted facial gymnastics;
‘so like he said to her like, okay like, I’m like (blah)…’
‘no way! Like he said that, like?. That’s like wow (blab)…’
‘yah, and so now like she’s going to tell him like (burble)…’
Continue in similar vein for about ten minutes until one of them gets a call on her mobile, then it’s;
‘hold on, I’ve like gotta take this… hi! No, I’m like just having a coffee right now…’
At this point I quickly drained my cup and left, as I’d now had about all I could take of this. What on earth has made so many young women latch on to this abominable verbal tic? A cunt is what it is, like.
Nominated by Ron Knee



